
Despite having two pieces of paper from the UK embassy in Australia and UK IPS guidelines proving my point, Australia Post refused to accept my passport application for a UK passport, saying the embassy and the UK Identity and Passport Service are wrong about countersignatures.
However, they very nearly took a $280 payment for it, while saying that they would recommend that the application be rejected without refund.
F******** RAAAAAGE!
Loads, just the other day:
www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk/abirds.html
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:10,
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www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk/abirds.html
The RAGE⢠has blinded me to punnage.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:29,
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Exchange rate jokes :(
Hope you get it sorted mate.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:08,
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Hope you get it sorted mate.
Ta! Rage levels are slowly subsiding.
Anyone remember Stressed Eric and his vein that would strangle him when he got the rage?
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:11,
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Anyone remember Stressed Eric and his vein that would strangle him when he got the rage?
I don't really understand why the Australian postal service is involved in your application for a UK passport at all.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:30,
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They get $50 per application while the embassy could lay off staff.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:32,
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For example, they own a large patisserie franchise.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:52,
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The consulate-general's email address is broken.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:25,
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Death by spoons is too good for them.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:15,
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"Nah, mate, you can't kill people here with that spoon. It's not been countersigned."
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:22,
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I've lowered the DEFRAGE level to DEFRAGE 3: dark muttering.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:21,
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It's shit here.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:35,
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Much like everywhere else.
Otherwise, it's been grand so far.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:37,
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Otherwise, it's been grand so far.
Perhaps it's wonderful here, and I've merely misperceived it for all these decades.
What's so unshit about it, then?
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:42,
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What's so unshit about it, then?
The scenery's great, the wildlife is great, the transport in Sydney's very good. People aren't quite so hard-line conservative as some places I've been. Sure, it's got some issues, but it's definitely no worse than Blighty.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:46,
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What cuntry are we talking about, then?
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:49,
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England's orrible.
(Although the people one's with can change the circumstances to a remarkable degree)
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 2:59,
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(Although the people one's with can change the circumstances to a remarkable degree)
The friends I had in Bern just about made it bearable for a couple of years.
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Tue 23 Mar 2010, 3:54,
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I met a Schwitz-Deutsch girl called Esther Fuchs in France, and it took nearly a week for the juvenile pleasure in her name to wear off.
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